Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	bodily_a	body_n	spiritual_a	4,262	5	6.4751	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02702	Hezekiahs recovery. Or, A sermon, shevving what use Hezekiah did, and all should make of their deliverance from sicknesse. First preached, and now published by Robert Harris, pastor of Hanwell	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1626 (1626)	STC 12836; ESTC S120679	31,744	59

very medicine 2. he perswades the means Put sorrow from thy heart saith he rejoyce with thy wife be lightsome in thy clothes cheerefull at thy meales c. diligent in thy calling than the which nothing is more availeable to comfort after spiritual meanes of prayer thanksgiving c. And he that in Gods meanes puts himselfe into possession of these shal arrive at so much health as shall be behoovefull Secondly if this double blessing be worth double thankes le ts prize it accordiagly praise God for it and 1. remember that there is a twofold deliverance one which keeps us from sicknesse another that helps us out of sickenesse a double blessing one in continuing health without sicknesse another in restoring health after sickenesse If we enjoy eyther let God have the praise and conclude for thy bodie as Amstem for his soule blesse God that hee hath kept off some taken off other sicknesses For the first there be som men who never knew what back-ach tooth-ach head-ach meant they scarce know what t is to have a finger ake at leaft they have enjoyed some good measure of health which hath its latitude these men I confesse can hardly weigh sickenesse or prize health the best course will be to send them to an Hospitall or to the house of of mourning there shall they find silence solitarinesse sadnesse light shut out ayre shut out misery shut in children weeping wife sighing the husband groning Oh my head O my backe O my stomach sicke sicke sick I cannot tell what to do where to rest helpe me up helpe me downe O I sinke I cannot stand I cannot sit I cannot lye I cannot eate I cannot sleepe I cannot live I cannot die O what shall I doe Brethren if you have not felt sickenesse yet heare it view it see how it racks and tortures a poore man and that done reflect upon thy selfe and say O Lord how much am I bound to thee for health I can eate my brother cannot I can walke he cannot I sleep all night he never layes his eyes together O Lord give mee a mercifull heart to men a thankefull heart to thee for this blessing For the second sort have we beene sicke and now made sound lay both estates together with Hezekiah and provoke thy selfe to thankfulnesse Call to mind what then thine anguish was how sicke thy stomach was how sad thy friends were how tedious the night how long the day how terrible the thoughts of death the apprehension of judgement thinke now thy thoughts then acknowledge now thy then purposes and vowes Didst thou not then thinke and promise Oh if God would reprieve mee once more I would become a new man more carefull of my wayes more thankfull for health than ever I have beene thinke now what the price of health was then what then thou wouldst have given for one nights sleep one hours ease one draught of drink one vomit one stoole one the least of those mercies which now thou enjoyest thinke how little wealth house land friends all seemed to thee without health and now thou hast all restored againe in this lift up thine eyes and hands to heaven with Nebuchadnezzar and say Sicknesse put me out of possession of all but with health all is come back againe my stomach is come to mee my sleepe my flesh my strength my joy my friends my house my wealth all is returned O what a change is here earst nothing but pain now nothing but ease not long since stript of all now possessed of all as if I were another Iob. Thus would wee looke eyther downeward or backward wee should become more thankefull but in any case take that with you which is said before of thankefulnesse in generall and apply it to this particular of health Thankfulnesse stands not in words and complements if you will bee truely thankefull for health thus doe 1 Come forth of affliction as Iob did that is as the gold comes out of the fire purged from your drosse let sicknesse draine the soule as well as bodie and leave your humours your pride selfe-love worldlinesse hypocrisie c. weaker than it found them and now you be made whole take your Saviours Item Sinne no more lest a worse thing happen to you fall not to your olde dyet lest you fall into your old diseases and relapse The chiefest use of sicknesse is to be made after it in sicknesse wee must resolve against sin our speciall sin but after sicknesse we must second our resolutions with performances Now then pay thy vowes sinne over thy sinnes no more but lay downe the practise of grosse sinnes the purpose of all shun at least the occasions of them And then in the second place offer to God the ransome of thy life as the Law runnes Exod. 31. I meane leave some seale pawne of thy thankefulnesse to God as Hezekiah did nay as Heathens did they after a shipwracke and danger would offer something after a fit of ficknes would consecrate something to their gods If thou wilt not be before hand with Philistims to offer in thy miserie yet at least returne with the Samaritan being recovered and present something let some Church some Parish some one Preacher some few poore men be witnesses of thy thankfulnesse and blesse God with and for thee I shall ever suspect that thanksgiving that spends it selfe in emptie words the man truely thankefull will make a shift to pay his Physitian much more to praise his GOD. with hand as well as tongue Reall thankefulnesse is the best preservative of health let Hezekiah lengthen Gods praises and God will lengthen his dayes and give him such a protection as never subject had Nor is it sufficient to present the Lord once and to confine our thankefulnesse to anie one particular instance we must in the third place consecrate our strengths and lives to God and offer up our selves as living and acceptable sacrifices to him that is woe must use all our time all our wit all our health everie limbe everie thing that hee hath folded up in our health to the setting up of God in our hearts und lives love him more than ever feare him more trust him more pray more reade more heare more do more worship at least more purely than before in our Christian calling and in our particular calling be more upright constant cheerefull fruitfull than before more humble more helpfull more mercifull more true just charitable than before in one better Christians better Church-men better Common-wealths men better husbands better Masters better parents children servants than before This this is true thankfulnesse when we heale in soule and bodie together when we grow in spirituall strength as well as in bodily when wee spend all that sufficiencie upon GOD and the publique which we have received from God and this is the thankfulnesse which I now call you and my selfe unto O be thus thankefull for your